The US has a Palestine Quandary - the issue is whether Donald Trump understands the quandary and is prepared to confront it. Or, if he understands it, will he follow his predecessors who failed to expend the political capital required to devise a just resolution to a problem that was brought into being by Harry Truman.
According to Avi Shlaim, writing in the Guardian on January 6, 2009: -
Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the infant state. On 2 June 1948, Sir John Troutbeck wrote to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, that the Americans were responsible for the creation of a gangster state headed by "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders".
Mr. Trump is just another American President who is constrained to confront the quandaries posed by North Korea and the Israeli-Palestinian dispute - both legacies of the Truman administration.

Israel reveives billions of dollars in support from the US. It receives billions from Jews al over the world. Jews and zionist in the West press companies to operate a branch in Israel. The total yearly support is estimated to be worth between 4 and 5 billion dollar. Imagine an Israel in peace without enemies, it would no longer receive those billions. Therefor Israelis never want to stop the conflict. It's about money. Like every war.

Israeli-Palestine conflict is a never ending chicken rotisserie.
Palestine is a bare territory whose currently unique reason to exist is to fight Israel non stop.

However, the Iran deal is a totally different beast. Iran took Obama for the lame duck he was, and abused him probably more than they too, abused Jimmy Carter. I don't know what is the legal categorization for a sitting President that airlifts 1.7 bn of US currency and delivers it next door to fund a declared "evil country". You name it.

As Abba Eban said years ago, "The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." They have allowed themselves to miss every opportunity for peace and self government since the 1967 War. That is a failure of Palestinian leadership - nothing more, nothing less.

Daoud Kuttab speaks of Trump's "quandary" in dealing with the Palestinian issue. Yet it's doubtful whether Trump will find himself in a state of uncertainty as to what to do in resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He will most unlikely succeed, where his predecessors had failed. Given his total pro-Israel stance, it's unclear how much he is prepared to stand up for America’s commitment to the 1993 Oslo peace accords, and not just defend Netanyahu’s far-right government and turn a blind eye to its land grab. He lashed out at Obama’s decision last December "to abstain from a vote on a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s illegal settlement construction, instead of vetoing the measure."
During his campaign one got the impression that Trump adopted a minimalist and disconnected isolationist position in foreign policy. As part of his minimal interest in foreign affairs, he didn’t see the Middle East as a good investment and it was reasonable to assume he would seek to reduce American involvement in the region. His Middle East policy would most likely be incoherent, unsettled, and transactional, as the rest of his policy agenda.
Trump would hardly be able to revive the peace process, which was sealed in 1993 with the aim of securing a two-state solution, even though he intended to pursue a peace agreement “for humanity’s sake,” calling it the “ultimate deal.” He made a mistake by promising to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the US embassy to the city. Suggestions from his team that he would not stand in the way of settlement construction, encouraged Israel to move toward a one-state reality. This would only "reinvigorate the struggle for Palestinian political rights in a single state."
Trump's appointment of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner as special envoy may not be a wise idea. He underestimates Kurshner's inexperience in this arcane and treacherous world of shadowy dealings in the Middle East. Apparently Trump wants to take the Arab countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia on board to help Israelis and Palestinians forge a peace agreement. He believes he could rally the Sunnis and israelis behind a shared hostility toward Iran, and secure peace in the wider Arab world. But they shouldn't be too sure that the Palestinians would accept a deal that Netanyahu has in mind - a Palestinian “state minus” that is "limited in size and sovereignty."
Jared Kushner will play a highly controversial role in the peace process and won't be taken seriously by Palestinians, because his family has in the past donated to Jewish settlements built on occupied territories in the West Bank. Trump may send a powerful signal to Israel that he is keen to commit. But it would also mean that he wouldn't be able to distance himself should the initiative fail. What many fear is that he might leave the region worse off by pushing Netanyahu's far-right government even further towards the ultra-right pro-settlement positions held by the likes of Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home party.
The author will be disappointed that Trump won't "confront Netanyahu with tough questions" during their meeting this week. Netanyahu and Jared Kushner's father are old friends. Netanyahu's political fate is closely linked to the expansion of Jewish settlements, and he relies on hawkish settlers and ultranationalists to stay in power. He doesn't care that his myopic policy does long-term damage to Israel's standing in the world and undermines its security.

Have Palestinians including other Arabs and Muslim brethren , ever since 1948 thought of giving up the dearly held belief to wipe out Jews and Israel ? If this question is answered, there is a ray of hope!

President Trump knows only about real estate, golf course and how to avoid paying taxes . I wonder if he ever read a book on history of Middle East, Arabs, Muslims etc! So it is unreasonable to expect any action from current US administration!

As another reader commented if the Palestinians/Arabs and a great deal of the Muslim world gave up their fantasy of wiping out Israel maybe there would be hope. It really is funny though that it is now Israel that that is being blamed for the possiblity of a two state solution looking less likely. Lets look at history. When Egypt was ready to make peace Israel was a willing partner, same with Jordan. A pretty decent proposal was worked out when Bill Clinton was in office but Arafat spat at that. Instead countires like Iran speak of the "Zionist entity" and fantasize openly about it's destruction.

It also amazes one that there is a wild outcry on a temporary travel ban from a few Muslim states but there is almost zero tolerance for non-muslims settling in 'Muslim' areas

As for the current regimes chances of success, well they can't get wosre than every previous US administrations. If the Palestinian leadership along with the Arab world can't face reality then the unfortunate situation will persist.

Even that solution, equal rights in one state, is already often refused by the Israelis. Even within the official Israeli borders non-jews have lesser rights than jews have. Israel is a de facto apartheidsregime.

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